Hi Patrick,
The important question here is what version of Cognos Express (or Planning Analytics Express) you are looking to migrate from. If it's 10.2 or above, Express is just a licensing model, and the Cognos BI and TM1 (or Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics) components are the exact same products as the regular non-express versions. There would be no migration to do - just trade up the licenses. If you're on a 10.x version it would definitely be worth upgrading to newer, supported versions of Cognos Analytics and Planning Analytics.
Prior to 10.2, Cognos Express was a custom download/install that was largely based on Cognos BI and TM1, but had some specific pieces unique to Express. These were largely things like the authentication provider and content store, and a specific utility to back up and restore. For the Cognos part of any migration, you'd need to deploy the content to a supported non-Express content store database, and you'd need a security migration to a supported non-Express authentication provider. The hardest part would be the security migration, I suspect. Again, upgrading to newer, supported versions of CA and PA would be highly recommended.
Cheers!
MF.
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Mark Fry
Technical Consultant
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Original Message:
Sent: Tue December 12, 2023 05:07 AM
From: Patrick Neveu
Subject: Migrate from Cognos Express to Cognos Analytics v12.0.x
Hi,
I'm struggling to find out any documention/experience regarding the migration from Cognos Express to Cognos Analytics.
Is it supported? Is there any caveits you would like to share?
It is only for the reports/package side.
Best regards,
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Patrick Neveu
Collaboration Betters The World (CBTW)
IBM Champion
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